Truck.



No. 800,445. PATENTED SEPT. 26, 1905. I

J. T. HOURIHAN.

TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19, 1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. HOURIHAN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TRUCK.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN TIHOURIHAN, of Boston, county of Suffolk, Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an. Improvement in Trucks, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like characters on the drawings representing likeparts.

This invention relates to trucks especially adapted for barrels, and hasfor its object to improve the construction of the same to the end thatthe barrel may be held in a perpendicular position and well balanced;that the platform upon which the barrel rests may be light, yetexceptionally strong and durable; that said platform be provided with aguide for the barrel; that a single handle may be employed which issecurely fastened to the platform, and that the barrel may be supportedin perpendicular position when the truck is on an incline.

Figure 1 shows in side elevation a truck embodying this invention. Fig.2 is a front elevation of the truck shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a planview of the truck shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of thetruck shown in Fig. 3, taken on the dotted line 4 4.

The platform of the truck comprises, essentially, a bar a, ofangle-iron, bent U shape, a cross-bar a, attached to its free ends, anda cross-bar a disposed at right angles to said cross-bar a, whichextends through the middle of the latform. The cross-bar (1 representsthe front edge of the platform. The cross-bar a is attached to thecross-bar a and to the angle-iron bar. The angle-iron bar is arranged topresent a horizontal portion and an upright or vertical portion at theouter side thereof, the former forming a part of the bottom of theplatform and the latter serving as a guide for the barrel. The crossbara is made of flat iron and is attached at its ends to the horizontalportion of the angle-iron bar. The cross-bar a is also made of flat ironand extends across the platform,

as shown, and serves as the middle supporting-bar. The platformrestsupon and is connected to an axletree 1), upon the opposite ends of whichtruck-wheels b are mounted to revolve freely. As shown, it will beobserved that both the angle-iron bar and the middle supporting-bar restupon said axletree. This is preferable, but not material.

As a means of connecting the axletree to the platform wire clips arepassed around the axletree entering grooves therein, and thenSpecification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 19, 1904. Serial No. 237,565.

Patented. Sept. 26, 1905.

through holes in the horizontal portion of the angle-iron bar, and thenover the upper edge of the upright portion of said bar. I do not,however, desire to limit my invention to the particular manner hereinshown of attaching the platform to the axle.

0 represents a handle which is made as a bar, with its upper end curvedand fashioned to be grasped by the operator, and but a single handle isehnployed. The middle supporting-bar 0. is extended upward beyond theangle-iron bar and is attached by bolts or otherwise to the lower end ofthe handle-bar to thereby secure said handle-bar to the platform. Tofurther assist in securing the handle-bar to the platform, its lower endis slotted to receive the upright portion of the angle-iron bar, and bythus embracing said bar a certain leverage upon it is obtained. Thehandle-bar c is furthermore secured to the platform or braced bydiagonal bars 01, the upper ends of which are connected to thehandle-bar and the lower ends to the angleiron bar.

Ordinarily the barrel is placed upon the platform, as represented bydotted lines, Fig 1, and it will be seen that the barrel is held inperpendicular position and is well balanced. When it is desired to runthe truck up an incline, the edge of the barrel adjacent the handle-baris raised onto a projection e, which is attached to the handle-b ar nearits lower end, (see Fig. 4,) and the barrel when thus supported will bewell balanced.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the employment of all of thestructural features herein shown and described, as it is obvious thatsome of them may be omitted.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is

1. In a truck, a U-shaped angle-iron bar arranged to present ahorizontal portion and an upright portion at the outer side of thehorizontal portion, a cross-bar attached to its free ends, a handle-barconnected to said U- shaped bar, and a pair of supporting-wheels,substantially as described.

2. In a truck, a U-shaped angle-iron bar, arranged to present ahorizontal portion and an upright portion at the outer side of thehorizontal portion, a crossb ar attached to its free ends, a middlesupporting-bar attached to said cross-bar and to the U-shaped bar, anaxletree upon which said U-shaped bar and the middle supporting-barrest, wheels borne by said aXletree, and a handle-bar attached to saidU-shaped bar, substantially as described.

3. In a truck, a platform comprising a U- shaped frame having across-bar attached to its free ends, a middle supporting-bar atta-chedto said cross-bar and to the lrame, F

and having an upward extension beyond the frame, a handle-bar bolted tosaid extension and an aXletree upon which said platform rests and wheelsborne by it, substantially as described.

4. In a truck, a platform comprising a U- shaped angle-iron frame, aportion thereof extending upward, and a cross-bar attached to its freeends, a handle-bar slotted at its lower end to engage the angle-ironframe,

means 'For attaching said handle-bar to the platform, andsupporting-wheels, substantially as described.

5. In a truck, a platform, a handle-bar connected thereto having aforwardly-extended projection near its lower end adapted to receive uponit the edge of a barrel, and. supporting-Wheels, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN T. HOURIHAN.

\Vitnesses P. McMonnow, JAS. H. LEONARD.

